Jim Tantillo
- Industry: Education
- Location: Ithaca : NY : United States
- Audio Clip
About Me
I'm fuzzy on the whole good bad thing.
If you were a wrestler, what would be your finishing move?
a Mickey Rourke-style Ram Jam followed by a Bruce Springsteen song about scarecrows and one-armed men
Interests
- history
- literature
- ecology
- ethics
- virtue theory
- American pragmatism
- environmental history
- environmental ethics
- primitivism
- Disney films
- historic preservation
- public history
- classic movie palaces
- the philosophy of sport
- field setters
Favorite Movies
- Ghostbusters
- Bambi
- Hercules
- Gladiator
- gladiator movies
- Beauty and the Beast
- The Truman Show
- Groundhog Day
- Matchstick Men
- Fargo
- The Big Lebowski
- Rashomon
- Ikiru
- Dead River Rough Cut
- The Snow Walker
- The Wrestler
Favorite Music
- Apeman by The Kinks
- Haiku by Tally Hall
- Business Time by Flight of the Conchords
- just about everything by Bare Naked Ladies
- Let's Get Mesolithic
Favorite Books
- Walden
- Pan's Travail
- Alone in the Wilderness
- Livre de Chasse
- Shelly Kagan's Normative Ethics
- Naked in the Woods
- Nature's Metropolis
- The American Railroad Freight Car
- Our Vanishing Wildlife
- Old Tractors and the Men Who Love Them
- Homo Ludens
- Leisure the Basis of Culture
- Justice as Fairness
- Edison and the Electric Chair